Pink
Pink is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 304th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191931 births
- Best rank
- #304in 1881
- Since 1880
- 1,127people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,089 boys have been named Pink in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 31 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 31 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1914, and the 1880s alone account for 20%. It has spent 29 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 38 girls have also been given it, 3.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1919, its biggest year
Pink was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1919 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Pink
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Olepeak 1881
- Greenpeak 1927
- Isompeak 1920
- Charleypeak 1920
- Simpeak 1918
- Washpeak 1921
- Edpeak 1959
- Chaspeak 1915
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.